Join Alison Marzocchi, Ph.D.
(Associate Professor of Mathematics and the Inaugural Winner of the WAC 's Student Writing Mentorship Award) and your colleagues for a WAC workshop
Crafting Authentic (and Potentially Publishable!) Writing Opportunities for Your Students
Wednesday, February 15, 2023 | 11AM- 12PM
Come join your colleagues for an inspiring workshop that will:
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Highlight the benefits of writing in every classroom
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Share strategies for designing authentic writing opportunities for your students
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Present ideas for turning classroom writing into student publications!
Refreshments will be served.
Dr. Alison Marzocchi is an Associate Professor of Mathematics who has mentored dozens of students in class-based publication opportunities. Her in-class writing assignments focus on authentic writing opportunities in a variety of genres and venues. Authentic writing assignments can help motivate students in your courses and increase their sense of belonging in your field.
Please email the WAC Program at wac@fullerton.edu with questions about this event.
Registration will be requested in a February 2023 email.
Sponsored by the WAC Program in partnership with the Faculty Development Center.
Join Chris Thaiss, Ph.D.
(Professor Emeritus
of Writing and Rhetoric
, UC Davis) and your colleagues for a special writing across the curriculum workshop
Learning to Write and Writing to Learn in STEM
Main Event on
Friday, February 24, 2023 | 2-3:30 PM
A Hybrid, Online workshop featuring . . .
- Asynchronous Elements:
- Instructional Videos
- Forums for collaborating with colleagues
- Synchronous Event:
- Zoom workshop on February 24 from 2:00-3:30pm
In this hybrid workshop, Dr. Thaiss will describe strategies for
- Improving students’ reading of scientific articles
- Making peer review an essential part of students’ writing process
- Helping STEM students learn to write for specialist readers and for more popular audiences
Chris Thaiss is Professor Emeritus of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of California, Davis, where he directed the cross-disciplinary University Writing Program and the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. He came to Davis from George Mason University (VA), where he founded the Writing Across the Curriculum Program, directed the Writing Center, and chaired the Department of English. From 2005 to 2015, he coordinated the International Network of Writing across the Curriculum Programs. From 2016 to 2022, he participated in sensory descriptive analysis panels in Davis’s Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science. His fourteen books include Writing Science in the Twenty-First Century (2019), A Short History of Writing Instruction: From Ancient Greece to the Modern United States (2020, with James Murphy), Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines: Research on the Academic Writing Life (2006, with Terry Myers Zawacki), and Writing Programs Worldwide: Profiles of Academic Writing in Many Places (2012, lead editor). His work has appeared in College Composition and Communication, Across the Disciplines, The WAC Journal, and Cell Biology, Life Sciences Education. His teaching has included undergraduate courses in writing in science and business/technical writing, as well as graduate courses in the teaching of writing and writing program administration.
Please email the WAC Program at wac@fullerton.edu with questions about this event.
Registration will be requested in a February, 2023 email.
Sponsored by the WAC Program in partnership with the Faculty Development Center.
